Assign multiple roles to one person

[spajak]

Sometimes the same person has more than one role.

I would like to write it just like this, using comma:

<dc:contributor id="producer">Sebastian Pająk</dc:contributor>
    <meta refines="#producer" property="role" scheme="marc:relators">role-1, role-2, role-3</meta>

But I guess the above is not valid; one has to repeat the same contributor for every role. It would be nice to simplify this to just one contributor+meta(s) tags.

[dauwhe]

See also #1583 and #1129 for related discussions

[iherman]

What this means is that, I believe, the following is fine:

<dc:contributor id="producer">Sebastian Pająk</dc:contributor>
    <meta refines="#producer" property="role" scheme="marc:relators">role-1</meta>
    <meta refines="#producer" property="role" scheme="marc:relators">role-2</meta>
    <meta refines="#producer" property="role" scheme="marc:relators">role-3</meta>

ie, if I understand the remark "one has to repeat the same contributor for every role" then this isn't correct.

Using the comma separated list syntax would mean to formally specify a micro-syntax in the spec which, though not complicated, is an unnecessary extra complexity on the spec (which is already complex enough).

[mattgarrish]

"one has to repeat the same contributor for every role" then this isn't correct

Not after this revision, no. We updated the rules in the earlier issues @dauwhe has pointed to.

Using the comma separated list syntax would mean to formally specify a micro-syntax in the spec

Right, this is why we avoided this approach. We can specify a syntax, but then people just do what they want anyway, which leaves it to reading systems to have to make sense of the input.

[dauwhe]

Are there reading systems that display contributor roles?

[iherman]

The issue was discussed in a meeting on 2021-09-16

List of resolutions:

• Resolution No. 2: Close issue 1782 with maximum prejudice (won't fix)

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3. Multiple Roles

See github issue #1782.

Dave Cramer: about package metadata. someone proposed that we be able to assign multiple roles to a person using a comma separate string of different roles
… but we don't think we want to get involved in parsing
… but you can already assign multiple roles to a person in the current spec
… and i'm not aware of many RS that even present this information to user
… so i would close this issue

Proposed resolution: Close issue 1782 as won't fix. we (Wendy Reid)

Matt Garrish: agreed. If we come up with a micro-syntax for the meta tag that could open up a bunch of issues. The one property per tag is a simple system that works.

Proposed resolution: Close issue 1782 with maximum prejudice (won't fix) (Wendy Reid)

Dave Cramer: +1

Brady Duga: +1

Shinya Takami (高見真也): +1

Matt Garrish: +1

Matthew Chan: +1

Toshiaki Koike: +1

Wendy Reid: +1

Resolution #2: Close issue 1782 with maximum prejudice (won't fix)